Browsing by Published at "Sensors"
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DC-Link Voltage and Catenary Current Sensors Fault Reconstruction for Railway Traction Drives
(MDPI AG, 2018)Due to the importance of sensors in control strategy and safety, early detection of faults in sensors has become a key point to improve the availability of railway traction drives. The presented sensor fault reconstruction ... -
FPGA-Based Degradation and Reliability Monitor for Underground Cables
(MDPI AG, 2019)The online Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimation of underground cables and their reliability analysis requires obtaining the cable failure time probability distribution. Monte Carlo (MC) simulations of complex thermal ... -
A Hybrid Sensor Fault Diagnosis for Maintenance in Railway Traction Drives
(MDPI AG, 2020)Due to the importance of sensors in railway traction drives availability, sensor fault diagnosis has become a key point in order tomove frompreventivemaintenance to condition-basedmaintenance. Most research works are limited ... -
Integral Sensor Fault Detection and Isolation for Railway Traction Drive
(MDPI AG, 2018)Due to the increasing importance of reliability and availability of electric traction drives in Railway applications, early detection of faults has become an important key for Railway traction drive manufacturers. Sensor ... -
Low Cost Photonic Sensor for in-Line Oil Quality Monitoring: Methodological Development Process towards Uncertainty Mitigation
(MDPI AG, 2018)Lubricant and hydraulic fluid ageing impacts the performance of the machines, gears, transmissions or automatisms where they are being used. This manuscript describes the work accomplished for bringing an innovative ... -
Neural Network Direct Control with Online Learning for Shape Memory Alloy Manipulators
(MDPI AG, 2019)New actuators and materials are constantly incorporated into industrial processes, and additional challenges are posed by their complex behavior. Nonlinear hysteresis is commonly found in shape memory alloys, and the ... -
Neuro-Sliding Control for Underwater ROV’s Subject to Unknown Disturbances
(MDPI, 2019)Proposed in this paper is a model-free and chattering-free second order sliding mode control(2nd-SMC) in combination with a backpropagation neural network (BP-NN) control scheme for underwater vehicles to deal with external ...
